Pool grill

This is a pretty famous photo. At least, I think it is. I first saw it years ago. It usually appears with captions like “Darwin awards”, “What stupid looks like”, “Rednecks grill”, etc.

The assumption seems to be that these are Americans using an electric grill in the pool.

Without doing any further research, there are some problems with that assumption. The surroundings don’t look particularly American to me, and the people don’t look especially like rednecks (the man sitting in the pool actually looks very European). Also, while the grill itself is plugged in, it’s not actually being used, and there is no food in the photo at all.

Another detail that came up in the forum thread is that the receptacles in the photo are European, not American. No one mentioned the beers, but if I knew more about that, I would probably be able to tell if those beers are typically European or American. In the main photo, the left-most bottle on the table could be a Tuborg Red perhaps.